Frederic Lewy

Frederic Lewy
Frederic Lewy
	Lewy c. 1920
Born	Friedrich Heinrich Lewy; January 28, 1885; Berlin, German Empire
Died	October 5, 1950 (aged 65); Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States
Resting place	Haverford Friends, Haverford, Pennsylvania
Occupation	Neurologist
Known for	Lewy bodies

Fritz Heinrich Lewy (/ˈlɛvi/; January 28, 1885 – October 5, 1950),^[1] known in his later years as Frederic Henry Lewey, was a German-born American neurologist. He is best known for the discovery of Lewy bodies, which are a characteristic indicator of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.^[2]

Lewy was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, on January 28, 1885. He trained in Berlin and Zürich and graduated from Berlin^{[clarification needed]} in 1910. He worked in Alois Alzheimer's Munich laboratory and was contemporary with Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885–1964), Alfons Maria Jakob (1884–1931) and Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963). In 1933, he fled Nazi Germany and moved to the United States.^[3] Lewy died in Haverford, Pennsylvania, on October 5, 1950, aged 65.

References

^ Friedrich H. Lewy at Who Named It?
^ Rodrigues e Silva AM, Geldsetzer F, Holdorff B, et al. (September 2010). "Who was the man who discovered the "Lewy bodies"?". Movement Disorders. 25 (12): 1765–73. doi:10.1002/mds.22956. PMID 20669275. S2CID 35005314.
^ Holdorff B (March 2002). "Friedrich Heinrich Lewy (1885–1950) and his work". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 11 (1): 19–28. doi:10.1076/jhin.11.1.19.9106. PMID 12012571. S2CID 24908805.